2020-01-23
1 小时 22 分钟My guest today, Kamal Revican, has trekked.
To one of the highest base camps in the Himalayas, served as a US army infantry soldier, walked 550 miles across Spain, co founded, built, and sold several technology companies in Silicon Valley, and watched others he founded Come tumbling down, which we talk about, by the way.
Co founded a venture capital firm, invested in some of the biggest endeavors in the world.
But the most difficult and transformative thing he has ever done is to learn to love himself.
And that did not come easily.
It only happened, as so often it.
Does, after he'd been pretty much brought to the edge of personal and financial collapse and more or less dropped to his knees in every way, this led to a complete and profound shift in focus from external accomplishment to kind of a softer metric.
He never saw coming and would never have validated before that the act of.
Finding and then loving himself.
Not an easy thing for a guy who'd lived life on very different terms till that moment.
And Kamal detailed his journey, along with a pretty simple set of practices in a short book that he wrote initially years back, as a way to reconnect with his stifled love of writing and also to memorialize what he'd figured out, the things that he was doing, to step back into this place of self love so he could share it with friends and stop sort of like, repeating the conversations over and over, hitting publish.
He was kind of terrified of what.
People in his world might think, but also believed that nobody would ever see it.
He just kind of self published it and sent it onto Laurel himself and said, you know, figured, I'll just refer people to it when they ask me questions about why I'm so different these days.
And then it went massively viral, selling over half a million copies.
That original book, love yourself like your life depends on it, has now been expanded into a much more personal and actionable set of stories and ideas and practices, and republished now by Harper Wan.
And today we dive into so many of the big moments of awakening touch points and some of the things that really brought him back to this place of living a truly abundant life and.
Falling back in love with himself.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.